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Re-capping the PSU failure

Mmm didn't really get much of blogging lately. Anyway here are some worthy highlights of the last week worth noting. I did mentioned that I got myself an Antec True Power-II 480W Power supply unit (PSU) on my birthday to replace my old Antec 430W supply. The PSU's fans suddenly burnt out & stopped spinning. I only discovered...

Happy Birthday to (me!)

Today is my birthday! A year older, a year wiser (as they always say). What else to but to stuff ourselves silly at an International buffet at Trader's Hotel, whats more, with Birthday compliments from Singtel, I got 20% off the total bill. The spread was cool, with lotsa my favourite lobsters, sushi & meats. I was...

Track & Field Booth

Yesterday was the second day of the freshmen enrollment day, which goes in hand with the CCA promotion day as well. Interestingly after each freshie is enrolled, they will have to pass through a series of classrooms where student clubs had set up booths to promote their respective CCAs. After going through this sequence & passing through...

Laptop Dilemma

Been surfing around a lot lately to check out good laptop buys, hoping to get one before school reopens. But there are just no good Tablet PCs around at the moment. I was once fascinated with laptops in secondary school, where I got my first personal notebook in secondary two. It lasted with my till Junior college days,...

Dell buys over Alienware

You might know the Alienware brand as an enthusiast gaming laptop manufacturer. They are largely and independent producer, who core line of business involve rebranding OEM gaming laptops tailored for extreme desktop and portable gaming. After some weeks of hiding in an out of the box, its official this time, Dell had acquired long time gaming rig...

Semester 2 Results Out!

The morning started at 9am with me trying to log into the all so buggy MSN messenger 7.5 only to crash 3 consecutively. I guess the notification disruptions of someone logging in & out of MSN repeated definitely leaves an impression on your contacts, explaining the barrage of messages which followed thereafter. With some telling me that...

Underwater Photos ready!

I really have to commend on how fast film photo developing is now, it only took one hour contrary to like one whole day back in the mid 90s. For an additional $3 you ccan even get all the softcopy of the images burned onto a CD-R. Call me old school if you may. Haha anyway it...

Scuba Diving at Pular Aur

Holiday update (Trip photo gallery) Ok heres quite a big update covering my weekend trip to Pulau Aur, click on the "show more" at the end of this post to read the full log of the holiday. 17th Mar Friday, the trip to Aur The last & final part of the NAUI Scuba Diver certification is to clock in 5...

Off to Pulau Aur!

I will be away this evening all the way till the coming Sunday. Would be Scuba Diving in Pulau Aur, Malaysia as part of my NAUI Scuba diver training. Should be touching down at Marsing around 12 midnight tonight, where its a 3 hour ferry ride to Aur, arriving at 3am. It will be interesting, so as...

Naui Scuba Diving Course

Today's the first day of my NAUI Scuba Diving Course. I actually remembered reading it somewhere, but till then it never crossed my mind that the word SCUBA was actually a noun, later do I rediscover that its actually an acronym- Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus S.C.U.B.A. haha talking about neat acronyms. Mingled around & made quite...

National Vertical Marathon 2006

Today is the day where we as a group from SP track & field, get to conquer the Suntec's full 43 floors of concrete at the NTU's annual National vertical marathon challenge. This is not my first vertical marathon, having conquered 73 floors at the swissotel, the stamford last year. But this 43 floors proves to be...

Samsung 10MP Camera Phone SCH-B600

Whoa, Ten megapixels as announced at CeBIT with the SCH-B600. Just when you thought you digital camera has all the opmhh & off! this baby spots a 3x optical zoom, with flash, S-DMB support, Bluetooth, not to mention a possible helfy price tag. Whats more it even had EV-DO & TV-out so you can enjoy all your...

Nintendo Rufflu-lution

Nintendo Rufflu-lution! Strange, theres nothing on the Nintendo Revolution in Singapore, due to be launched this japan year in answer to Sony's PS3 & the Xbox 360. Even the 2 Nintendo booths at the Suntec IT show had nothing much on the lineup except demos on the SP & New DS Lite. Haha, now the funny part. Recall one...

Suntec IT Show 2006 Report

Show report! Visited the IT show (Held Suntec 9th-12th March 2006) yesterday evening on the opening day, Thurday to beat the weekend crowds & check out the good fresh deals. The so-claimed 4m wide walk ways are really really unbelievable. It was so clear I could even lie down flat on the exhitbiton floor & claim that...

UMPC (Ultra Mobile Personal Computer)

Apparently, Microsoft is coming up with a new line of UMPC (Ultra Mobile Personal Computer), code-named Origami. It will be a seemless blend between our current PDAs & tablet/notebook PCs. So far the closest we had seen embarking on the concept previously was fujitsu with their ultraportable & highly successful Lifebook P1510. The only thing is that...

Been Busy, trip to orthopedics

Had not been regularly updating since the end of my papers. Had been working & meeting up with cilents during the past few days. Not to mention trying to clear up jobs & commissions I've recieved as a merchant & designer in the rather profitable MMORPG I've been playing for about 5 months, called Second-Life. So far...

78th Annual Academy Awards results

And so we have it the results of the 78th Annual Academy Awards. Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney, Syriana Best Visual Effects: King Kong Best Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best Live Action Short Film: Six Shooter Best Live Animated Short Film: The Moon and the Son Best Costume Design: Memoirs of...

Scuba Diving Course Comfirmed

And there we have it - the March Plans for World Domination on paper! With the exams over, time to look forward to the various activites & events lined up for the march holiday (particularly chores). Did some grocery shopping with mum today afternoon at NTUC as lunch at the rather popular hainanese Chicken Rice store in...

End of Semester & exams…

Sis blew the family living room computer's DVD drive together with it's intellimouse, MSN refuses to log me in, the stupid SP student intranet is hanging Firefox again, the Steam Network just keeps rejecting my password, my correction tape ran dry midway in the exams today. Dammit just when anything can get any worst. I am no longer...

Torino Winter Olympics 2006 closing

And so there was, the closing of the Torino 2006 winter Olympics in Italy, marking another entry in the olympic history. It was a good event, especially notable are the cross country skiing, speed/figure skating & adrenaline rushing blobsled events. Not to mention the rather interesting bialthon & curling event. Too bad Singapore is a tropical country, (with...

Travel Guides

Exploring Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama

Let’s take an explore today The Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, Japan. It is an interactive museum dedicated to the popular instant noodle brand....

Technology and Gadgets

How to install and run a local Deepseek R1 instance

This article teaches you how to quickly install, setup and run DeepSeek R1 large language models (LLMs) in under 30 minutes on your local...

Events

Hanami Market 2025 Suntec City

Let’s take a visit to Hanami Market 2025 at Suntec City in Singapore. This annual event is a marketplace which tad celebrates Japanese culture....

River Hongbao 2025 explorations

Light to night 2025 SG Art week

Artbox 2025 Singapore Expo

Food Reviews

Nosh Bistro at Henderson

Nosh Bistro, located at 213 Henderson Road in Singapore, is a western-style eatery known for offering quality dishes at affordable prices. The establishment originated...

Museums

Sport Events